| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Sean Frank: Solo Stove is shrinking 25% year-over-year and losing ~$50M | Sean Frank | Mar 24, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Sean Frank: Solo Stove is shrinking 25% year-over-year and losing ~$50M | Sean Frank | Mar 24, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Frank: Apple will make $40B from ad data exchange in two years | Sean Frank | Mar 24, 2025 | Open |
| $1.3B | “a quarter billion dollars” | Sean Frank: Ridge has spent over $250M on Meta advertising | Sean Frank | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Frank: Affirm accounts for roughly 15% of Ridge Wallet purchases | Sean Frank | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 1.3M | “a quarter million” | Adler: Biotech Startup Raised $3.25M Led by Peter Thiel, Cantos, and Refactor | Jake Adler | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Adler: COVID-19 Cost US $16T and Caused Pacific Fleet Gap | Jake Adler | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 16T | “16 trillion” | Adler: COVID-19 Cost US $16T and Caused Pacific Fleet Gap | Jake Adler | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| $36M | “thirty six million dollars” | Founders Fund Deploying $36M First Check Into European Defense Startup | Delian Asparouhov | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Senra: Todd Graves owns over 90% of $10B+ Raising Cane's | David Senra | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Senra: Todd Graves owns over 90% of $10B+ Raising Cane's | David Senra | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Senra: James Dyson still owns 100% of Dyson | David Senra | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Coogan: Standard YC playbook dilutes founders to single-digit equity | John Coogan | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Coogan: Standard YC playbook dilutes founders to single-digit equity | John Coogan | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| $60B | “sixty billion dollars” | Hays: Masayoshi Son's 2019 Nvidia sale cost him $160B by 2024 | Jordi Hays | Mar 24, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Mercor scaled from $1M to $100M in revenue in two years | Brendan Foody | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Holland: 100% bonus depreciation yields ~20% of aircraft purchase price in tax savings | Preston Holland | Mar 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 700M | “a six hundred million” | Holland: VistaJet's $600M raise fell below earlier $1B target | Preston Holland | Mar 21, 2025 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Holland: VistaJet's $600M raise fell below earlier $1B target | Preston Holland | Mar 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Holland: VistaJet's $600M raise fell below earlier $1B target | Preston Holland | Mar 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Wu: Software engineers spend 90% of time on maintenance tasks | Scott Wu | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Wu: Software engineers spend 90% of time on maintenance tasks | Scott Wu | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Weisenthal: The US Treasury Market Is Literally a Prediction Market | Joe Weisenthal | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 75M | “seventy-five million” | Byers: Susa Ventures launches $175M Fund V for pre-seed and seed | Chad Byers | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 25M | “twenty five million” | Byers: Susa Ventures launched in 2013 with $25M from 75 individual LPs | Chad Byers | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Byers: Susa Ventures resisted pivoting entirely to crypto or AI | Chad Byers | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Car Dealership Guy's previous venture-backed auto startup reached $100M in annual sales | Car Dealership Guy | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| $60M | “sixty million dollars” | Car Dealership Guy raised $60M for previous startup before bootstrapping media brand | Car Dealership Guy | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Automakers will increase consumer incentives as the vehicle market sits 30% oversupplied | Car Dealership Guy | Mar 19, 2025 | Held up |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Lessin: Being a $10B public company is a dumb place to be | Sam Lessin | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| $6B | “six billion dollars” | Bartlett: Sovereign wealth replaced pensions and endowments in mega VC funds | Logan Bartlett | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Bartlett: Sovereign wealth replaced pensions and endowments in mega VC funds | Logan Bartlett | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | Bartlett: Apple's secretive, cautious culture is antithetical to AI development | Logan Bartlett | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Bartlett: Redpoint invested in Ramp at an $8B+ valuation in late 2021 | Logan Bartlett | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Bartlett: Redpoint invested in Ramp at an $8B+ valuation in late 2021 | Logan Bartlett | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Steinman: 100 foreign sabotage teams are actively operating on US soil | Joshua Steinman | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Career progression depends on a CEO's internal trust score, not titles | Shaan Puri | Mar 15, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Shaan Puri predicts Kevin Espiritu's Epic Gardening could reach billion-dollar valuation | Shaan Puri | Mar 15, 2025 | — |
| $36M | “thirty six million dollars” | Justin Mares: TruMed raised $36M led by Andreessen Horowitz | Justin Mares | Mar 14, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $1.5T | “a half trillion dollars” | Mares: 90% of $4.5T Annual US Healthcare Spend Goes to Chronic Conditions | Justin Mares | Mar 14, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Mares: 90% of $4.5T Annual US Healthcare Spend Goes to Chronic Conditions | Justin Mares | Mar 14, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Mares: Average American food is 40% to 70% less nutrient dense than 50 years ago | Justin Mares | Mar 14, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 90% | “90%” | Mares: Spinach loses 70% to 90% of nutrient density during 12-day transit | Justin Mares | Mar 14, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Asparouhov: Roughly 80% of major S&P 500 drawdowns occur October to February | Delian Asparouhov | Mar 14, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 99% | “99%” | Asparouhov: SpaceX holds 99% market share with ~50% gross margins | Delian Asparouhov | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Asparouhov: SpaceX holds 99% market share with ~50% gross margins | Delian Asparouhov | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 27× | “27 times” | Asparouhov: China relies on mass manufacturing over reusable rocket technology | Delian Asparouhov | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Mignano: Anchor raised under $15M and had 25 employees when acquired | Michael Mignano | Mar 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Mignano: Josh Moore built AI app Wave to $5M ARR solo | Michael Mignano | Mar 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Frank: AI tutors will accelerate learning and eliminate need for homework | Chrisman Frank | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 65M | “sixty five million” | Lessin: Slow Ventures launches $65M vehicle investing in seed creators | Sam Lessin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lessin: MrBeast spent more on his Amazon show than his $100M deal | Sam Lessin | Mar 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Will Manidis: No new AI-enabled executive physical startups will survive | Will Manidis | Mar 11, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Will Manidis: Tech market has multiple 10x upside cycles and sell-downs ahead | Will Manidis | Mar 11, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Ohanian: 10% of Seven Seven Six AUM Is His Own Capital | Alexis Ohanian | Mar 11, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Ohanian: Angel City FC Is Worth Nearly $300 Million | Alexis Ohanian | Mar 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Ohanian: Taste will become 100x more valuable as AI commoditizes intelligence | Alexis Ohanian | Mar 11, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 x” | Carter: Passing on CoreWeave cost Castle Island a 50x Fund I return | Nic Carter | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Nic Carter: Crypto games have failed 100% of the time | Nic Carter | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Giffon: AI will enable 100% annual growth with far less capital | Jeremy Giffon | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Giffon: Founders with $20M revenue and $100M raised are quietly trapped | Jeremy Giffon | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Giffon: Founders with $20M revenue and $100M raised are quietly trapped | Jeremy Giffon | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Giffon: Senior execs at larger firms are untapped talent for running startups | Jeremy Giffon | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Giffon: Liquidation preferences trap founders who build heroic $30M revenue businesses | Jeremy Giffon | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “a two hundred million” | Giffon: Liquidation preferences trap founders who build heroic $30M revenue businesses | Jeremy Giffon | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Giffon: Liquidation preferences trap founders who build heroic $30M revenue businesses | Jeremy Giffon | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Giffon: VC dollars deployed grew 10x over past decade | Jeremy Giffon | Mar 9, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Tan: 100% of YC companies currently have technical co-founders | Garry Tan | Mar 8, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 80% | “80%” | Tan: 70% to 80% of Startups Enter YC Unlaunched With Zero Revenue | Garry Tan | Mar 8, 2025 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Tan: YC founder conference unlocked $10B–$100B in value | Garry Tan | Mar 8, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Garry Tan: VCs hard-allocate over $1B yearly to Y Combinator companies | Garry Tan | Mar 8, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Garry Tan: About 90% of YC batch companies are AI startups | Garry Tan | Mar 8, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Doricko predicts a major surge in US printed circuit board manufacturing | Augustus Doricko | Mar 8, 2025 | — |
| $800M | “eight hundred million dollars” | Maguire: Sequoia invested $800 million in X's take-private transaction | Shaun Maguire | Mar 7, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Maguire: Starlink's 10x cost advantage will replace subsea fiber optics | Shaun Maguire | Mar 7, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Senra: The dynamic range between average and top performers in tech is 100x to 1,000x | David Senra | Mar 7, 2025 | — |
| 2× | “two times” | Senra: The dynamic range between average and top performers in tech is 100x to 1,000x | David Senra | Mar 7, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Senra: The dynamic range between average and top performers in tech is 100x to 1,000x | David Senra | Mar 7, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Senra: The dynamic range between average and top performers in tech is 100x to 1,000x | David Senra | Mar 7, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Coogan: Spotify's early memo predicted 2025 user metrics within 10% | John Coogan | Mar 7, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 10% | “10%” | Coogan: Spotify's early memo predicted 2025 user metrics within 10% | John Coogan | Mar 7, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1.1B | “1.1 billion” | Harris: Prime Intellect completed 1.1B and 10B parameter distributed training runs | Bridget Harris | Mar 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Harris: Prime Intellect completed 1.1B and 10B parameter distributed training runs | Bridget Harris | Mar 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Glyman: Ramp grew 4x in 2022, outpacing every public tech company | Eric Glyman | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 8.1B | “8.1 billion” | Glyman: Ramp repriced its valuation down from $8.1B to $5.8B | Eric Glyman | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 5.8B | “5.8 billion” | Glyman: Ramp repriced its valuation down from $8.1B to $5.8B | Eric Glyman | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Glyman: At average profit margins, a dollar saved equals $12 in revenue | Eric Glyman | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Ramp processes 1% to 2% of all US business card spend | Eric Glyman | Mar 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Hays: Humanoid Robot Startup Raising at $40B With One Customer | Jordi Hays | Mar 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | McCormick: AI Will Produce a Couple of $10T Companies | Packy McCormick | Mar 5, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Hays: Cursor is generating $100M ARR with 20 employees | Jordi Hays | Mar 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Petersen: 30% of large Shopify merchants fulfilled US orders duty-free from Mexico | Ryan Petersen | Feb 28, 2025 | — |
| $90B | “Ninety billion dollars” | Ferrari reaches $90B valuation on only 13,752 annual vehicle deliveries | John Coogan | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Most Ferrari models depreciate massively except sub-1,000-unit flagship hypercars | Jordi Hays | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Ferrari trades $40 billion above Volkswagen despite producing millions fewer cars | John Coogan | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 9M | “nine million” | Ferrari trades $40 billion above Volkswagen despite producing millions fewer cars | John Coogan | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.4M | “1.4 million” | LaFerrari secondary market values have appreciated from $1.4M to $3.8M | John Coogan | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Aston Martin shares have lost over 95% since their 2018 IPO | John Coogan | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Nikola Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy at a $40 Million Market Cap | Austin Petersmith | Feb 24, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Nikola Went Public via a SPAC in June 2020 at $20 Billion | Jordi Hays | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 20B | “Twenty billion” | Nikola Went Public via a SPAC in June 2020 at $20 Billion | Jordi Hays | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Nikola Sued Tesla for $2 Billion Over Design Features in 2018 | Austin Petersmith | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 33M | “a thirty two million” | Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Purchased a $32 Million Utah Ranch | Austin Petersmith | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| $25M | “twenty five million dollars” | Nikola Settled With the SEC for $125 Million Over Misleading Investors | Jordi Hays | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| $27M | “twenty seven million dollars” | Nikola Saw $27 Million in Trading Volume on Its Bankruptcy Day | Jordi Hays | Feb 24, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Ford Would Be a $100 Billion Company With a Nadella-Caliber CEO | Jordi Hays | Feb 24, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | LVMH sales in China plunged around 20% in 2024 | John Coogan | Feb 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Kering Asia-Pacific sales dropped 30% in 2024 | Jordi Hays | Feb 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Super Apps Like WeChat Erase Apple's Software Ecosystem Moat in China | Jordi Hays | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Super Apps Like WeChat Erase Apple's Software Ecosystem Moat in China | Jordi Hays | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Socialism and UBI Are Only Viable With 10% GDP Growth | John Coogan | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Socialism and UBI Are Only Viable With 10% GDP Growth | John Coogan | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Coogan: LVMH Spends 10x More on Tiffany Stores Than Prior Owners | John Coogan | Feb 21, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $6B | “six billion dollars” | Coogan: xAI raised $6B in November and owns its GPUs | John Coogan | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| $1B | “one billion dollars” | Coogan: Ilya Sutskever's SSI is raising $1B+ at over $30B valuation | John Coogan | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Coogan: Ilya Sutskever's SSI is raising $1B+ at over $30B valuation | John Coogan | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Coogan: The sixth-best AI model can still be a profitable commodity | John Coogan | Feb 19, 2025 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Coogan: AI and LLMs will create at least $1 trillion in value | John Coogan | Feb 19, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Coogan: AI and LLMs will create at least $1 trillion in value | John Coogan | Feb 19, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Coogan: 90% of 1,000 ChatGPT jokes were repeats of 25 jokes | John Coogan | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Coogan: Eliminating AI hallucinations may require astronomical compute costs | John Coogan | Feb 19, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Hays: PillPack Founder TJ Parker Sold Company to Amazon for $1B | Jordi Hays | Feb 12, 2025 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Coogan: Hims Might Be Most Successful DTC Company Beside Chewy | John Coogan | Feb 12, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Hims bends rules because GLP-1 cash outweighs risks, says Hays | Jordi Hays | Feb 12, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Hays: Compounding pharmacies can be purchased for under $1 million | Jordi Hays | Feb 12, 2025 | Supported |
| $5B | “Five billion dollars” | Coogan: Telehealth compounding stretches regulations meant for local pharmacies | John Coogan | Feb 12, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Jordy: Roblox stock dropped 30% following usage decline and short-seller report | Jordy (Geordie) | Feb 10, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Jordy: Solo Stove valuation crashed from $2B to under $100M | Jordy (Geordie) | Feb 10, 2025 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Coogan: Amazon is spending $100 billion on CapEx in 2025 | John Coogan | Feb 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 90B | “ninety billion” | Coogan: Microsoft, Google, and Meta will spend $230B combined on CapEx | John Coogan | Feb 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 75B | “seventy-five billion” | Coogan: Microsoft, Google, and Meta will spend $230B combined on CapEx | John Coogan | Feb 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 65B | “sixty-five billion” | Coogan: Microsoft, Google, and Meta will spend $230B combined on CapEx | John Coogan | Feb 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 69.1B | “69.1 billion” | Coogan: Apple Q1 iPhone sales fell nearly 1%, missing analyst estimates | John Coogan | Feb 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 70.7B | “70.7 billion” | Coogan: Apple Q1 iPhone sales fell nearly 1%, missing analyst estimates | John Coogan | Feb 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Coogan: Apple Q1 iPhone sales fell nearly 1%, missing analyst estimates | John Coogan | Feb 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Coogan: Apple Q1 China sales dropped 11%, missing $20 billion forecast | John Coogan | Feb 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | Coogan: Apple Q1 China sales dropped 11%, missing $20 billion forecast | John Coogan | Feb 8, 2025 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Hays: Apple lacks commercial incentives to radically improve iPhone battery life | Jordi Hays | Feb 8, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Hays: Apple lacks commercial incentives to radically improve iPhone battery life | Jordi Hays | Feb 8, 2025 | — |
| $30B | “thirty billion dollars” | Temu Will Reach $30 Billion in US Sales This Year | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | Supported |
| $48B | “forty eight billion dollars” | US Imported $48 Billion Under De Minimis in Early 2024 | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | China's De Minimis Exports Exploded From $5B to $65B in Five Years | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | Supported |
| $65B | “sixty five billion dollars” | China's De Minimis Exports Exploded From $5B to $65B in Five Years | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Temu and Shein Churn Would Not Substantially Harm Meta's Revenue | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | — |
| 11B | “eleven billion” | Temu and Shein Churn Would Not Substantially Harm Meta's Revenue | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Temu and Shein's Share of Meta Ad Spend Has Already Peaked | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Temu and Shein's Share of Meta Ad Spend Has Already Peaked | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Temu and Shein's Share of Meta Ad Spend Has Already Peaked | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Nat Friedman Launched Vesuvius Challenge With $1 Million in Total Prizes | John Coogan | Feb 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Coogan: Google Books Holds 2.6T to 5.2T Tokens in 40M Digitized Books | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 2.6T | “2.6 trillion” | Coogan: Google Books Holds 2.6T to 5.2T Tokens in 40M Digitized Books | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 5.2T | “5.2 trillion” | Coogan: Google Books Holds 2.6T to 5.2T Tokens in 40M Digitized Books | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Coogan: OpenAI's $200 o1 Pro uses the same model as $20 o1 | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Coogan: DeepSeek R1 failed prompt length test compared to OpenAI o1 Pro | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Hays: Average users cannot tell if AI models become 10% smarter | Jordi Hays | Jan 28, 2025 | — |
| 45× | “45 X” | Coogan: DeepSeek V3 Was ~45x More Training-Efficient Than Competitors | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 27% | “27%” | Coogan: DeepSeek-R1 API is 27 times cheaper than OpenAI's o1 | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 27× | “27 times” | Coogan: DeepSeek-R1 API is 27 times cheaper than OpenAI's o1 | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | Supported |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | Hays: China announced approximately $500B in new state-funded tech investment | Jordi Hays | Jan 28, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 75% | “75%” | Hays: Nvidia valuation is hard to justify as competitive moats crack | Jordi Hays | Jan 28, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 x” | Hays: Nvidia valuation is hard to justify as competitive moats crack | Jordi Hays | Jan 28, 2025 | — |
| $7.7B | “7.7 billion dollars” | Coogan: Nvidia booked $7.7B in Singapore chip sales in Q3 2024 | John Coogan | Jan 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Hays: Compute Demand Must Grow Because AI Impact Has Reached Only 1% | Jordi Hays | Jan 28, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Hays: Compute Demand Must Grow Because AI Impact Has Reached Only 1% | Jordi Hays | Jan 28, 2025 | — |
| 77% | “77%” | Coogan: 77% of Chinese Expect AI Job Growth vs 36% in US | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 36% | “36%” | Coogan: 77% of Chinese Expect AI Job Growth vs 36% in US | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 100B | “one hundred billion” | Coogan: Stargate $500B figure represents total cost of ownership not upfront capex | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Coogan: Stargate $500B figure represents total cost of ownership not upfront capex | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Hays: Nvidia captures over 100% of all AI industry profits | Jordi Hays | Jan 25, 2025 | — |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Coogan: Stargate joint venture is incrementally negative for Microsoft long-term | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Coogan: First $100 Billion of Project Stargate Goes to Texas | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 400B | “four hundred billion” | Coogan: First $100 Billion of Project Stargate Goes to Texas | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Coogan: Major Game Studios Have Zero Incentive to Adopt Crypto | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Coogan: Major Game Studios Have Zero Incentive to Adopt Crypto | John Coogan | Jan 25, 2025 | — |
| 75M | “seventy five million” | Coogan: DJI Raised $75M From Accel at an $8B Valuation | John Coogan | Jan 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Coogan: DJI Raised $75M From Accel at an $8B Valuation | John Coogan | Jan 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Coogan: DJI Raised $75M From Accel at an $8B Valuation | John Coogan | Jan 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Coogan: Biggest AI opportunities lie in controversial categories big labs avoid | John Coogan | Jan 24, 2025 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Coogan: Apple earns about $20B at 100% margin from Google search deal | John Coogan | Jan 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Coogan: Apple earns about $20B at 100% margin from Google search deal | John Coogan | Jan 24, 2025 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Hays: Masayoshi Son claimed he overdelivered $500B pledge to Trump | Jordi Hays | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Hays: Stargate's $500B Plan Dwarfs Total 2024 US Startup Funding | Jordi Hays | Jan 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Hays: Stargate's $500B Plan Dwarfs Total 2024 US Startup Funding | Jordi Hays | Jan 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $68B | “sixty-eight billion dollars” | Hays: Stargate's $500B Plan Dwarfs Total 2024 US Startup Funding | Jordi Hays | Jan 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Coogan: Goldman Sachs Estimates Big Tech Will Spend $1T on Capex | John Coogan | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Hays: Stargate consortium lacks even 20% of $500B committed | Jordi Hays | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Hays: Stargate consortium lacks even 20% of $500B committed | Jordi Hays | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| $1.5T | “half a trillion dollars” | Coogan: Humanity will invest half a trillion in AI by 2029 | John Coogan | Jan 23, 2025 | Held up |
| 10× | “10 X” | Coogan: AI training scaling laws show diminishing returns since GPT-4 | John Coogan | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Coogan: AI could increase law firm margins despite 40% volume drop | John Coogan | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Coogan: AI could increase law firm margins despite 40% volume drop | John Coogan | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Coogan: Algorithmic feed views fluctuate wildly compared to consistent podcast RSS | John Coogan | Jan 18, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Hayes: Snapchat's creator fund paid out $1M per day | Jordi Hays | Jan 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Hayes: Price creator sponsorships on lowest-performing videos, not monthly views | Jordi Hays | Jan 18, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Coogan: Meta and YouTube Shorts will capture 99% of TikTok's time | John Coogan | Jan 18, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Coogan: Meta and YouTube Shorts will capture 99% of TikTok's time | John Coogan | Jan 18, 2025 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Hayes: Many Chinese VC Funds Require Founders to Sign Personal Guarantees | Jordi Hays | Jan 18, 2025 | Supported |
| $30B | “thirty billion dollars” | Hayes: Jeff Yass Holds Over $30B Stake in ByteDance | Jordi Hays | Jan 18, 2025 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Coogan: Sonos does over $1 billion in annual revenue | John Coogan | Jan 16, 2025 | Supported |
| $100M | “A hundred million dollars” | Coogan: MP3.com went public for $100M with no software written | John Coogan | Jan 16, 2025 | Contradicted |
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